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Pumpkin Cupcakes with Five-Minute Chocolate Frosting

October 15, 2012

IMPORTANT NOTE: I REMOVED THE MUFFIN RECIPE BECAUSE PATTY APPARENTLY WROTE SOMETHING DOWN WRONG WHEN SHE MADE THE MUFFINS. PLEASE FORGIVE ME! I will re-post if we re-make the recipe and I have more confidence in it. Thanks for your patience as I make mistakes sometimes.

About 2/3 cup (add slowly to achieve desired consistency) of your favorite nut or seed milk, even Rice Dream from a box

Directions: Blend in a high-speed blender until creamy. Let it sit on a counter at room temperature for about 30 mins so it gets a bit firmer (and while waiting for your muffins to cool down from the oven). Spread on muffins and enjoy!

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Robyn Openshaw is the author or editor of 14 titles, including the bestselling book The Green Smoothies Diet, the children's book, The Adventures of Junk Food Dude, and the course 12 Steps to Whole Foods. She’s passionate about overthrowing the Standard American Diet by teaching people to eat more whole foods easily, inexpensively, and deliciously. She’s the mom of 4 competitive athletes as well as a runner, cyclist, skier, and competitive tennis player. She travels all over the world speaking to sold-out audiences and studying non-toxic cancer treatment for her next project.

Shannon, thanks for the recipe. I have texted Patty about your issue with this recipe and asked her to look at it after work and advise me if she gave me anything wrong. Dry quinoa should not be used because it has a coating called saponin that needs to be rinsed off. Quinoa when rinsed (sprouted, dried) will not be bitter. Or you can BUY quinoa flour. Anyway, I am sorry and will post any changes after Patty looks at it tonight, will post a note on it right now.

Lisa Blake please accept my apologies. The frosting should be great, but the muffins–we must have posted incorrect proportions, and I am very sorry. She made her own quinoa flour by soaking and dehydrating quinoa.

Marisela, I’m so sorry. I’m frustrated too. (Patty says she doesn’t have time right now, having taken a new job that is fulltime, six days a week.) What I recommend is substituting natural sweeteners for the sugar in an online pumpkin muffin recipe, substituting quinoa flour, and making the chocolate frosting (I left that recipe up).

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